This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been rediscovered and is now rising from its ancient resting place in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just spotted something in a hilly area of the Red Planet that you have to see; fortunately, the space agency has unveiled it all in stunning new images. And finally, this unusual object should have been “impossible” to create using Iron Age tools… so how did its ancient crafters make it?
Ready to dive deeper? Here’s a look at several of the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief…
- Scientists May Have Finally Solved Earth’s Greatest Extinction Mystery
- “A Major Milestone in the Search for Life on Other Planets”: First Ever Detection of an Atmosphere Around an Earth-Like, Habitable Zone Rocky Exoplanet
- “This Upper Limit is an Illusion”: NASA Study Warns There May Be “No Limit” to How Solar Storms Impact Earth
- Astronomers Uncovered a Hidden Bubble Inside the Orion Nebula
- Deep Beneath the Atlantic, an Eerie “Lost City” is Feeding Legions of Lifeforms That Thrive Where Sunlight Never Reaches
- Can You See It? This Stealth Drone Deploys a Human Perception “Hack” to Become Nearly Invisible to the Eye
- No Sample-Return Required? Scientists Demonstrate Extraterrestrial Biosignature Detection Method Using the Mars Rover’s Existing Instruments
- Weapons Buried with Ancient Egyptian Women Were Long Seen as Symbols—New Research Suggests They Had a More Lethal Purpose
- An ‘Asteroid’ Tracked Since 1998 Made an Unexplained Orbital Shift—Now Astronomers Say It’s Something Far More Mysterious
- Sunlight at Night? Astronomers Fire Back at Controversial FCC Approval of Reflect Orbital’s Eärendil-1 Mirror Satellite
- Scientists May Have Finally Solved One of Human Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries: When Our Ancestors Grew Larger
- Scientists Achieve Most Precise Measurement Yet of Einstein’s Frame-Dragging Effect
- Breakthrough Study Uncovers New Evidence Connecting “Hidden” Dimensions to Mystery of Dark Matter
- DARPA Wants to Build an Army of 100,000 AI Agents That Can Think and Act on Their Own
- 2000-Year-Old Evidence of a Cult Shrine to Odysseus, the Legendary Hero of Homer’s ‘Odyssey,’ Has Been Uncovered at Ithaca